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Despair (Blu-ray, 2012)

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A chocolate factory manufacturer in Nazi Germany, finds a tramp who he believes is his double. He plots the tramp's murder in order to take his identity and start a new life for himself.

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ProducerEdward R. Pressman

EAN5060203340520

eBay Product ID (ePID)113731992

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleDespair

ActorVolker Spengler, Andrea Ferreol, Dirk Bogarde, Gottfried John

DirectorRainer Werner Fassbinder

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2012

FeaturesDocumentary\Image Gallery

GenrePsychological, Thriller

Run Time115 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureGermany

AuthorVladimir Nabokov

Additional InformationHaving made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, DESPAIR. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set in 1930s Germany, is in English. It received mixed reviews, if only because it is so unlike the director's other works. In the story, a Russian owner of a German chocolate-factory, whose business and marriage are both on the rocks, fantasizes about leaving his current life, and living another one. Indeed, he has delusions that he is somehow outside himself, watching himself live his life. So strong is his desire to alter his life that when he encounters a tramp while on a brief business trip, he imagines that the man looks exactly like him, decides to exchange identities with the tramp, and murders him.

Movie/TV TitleDespair

Sound sourceDolby Digital

ScreenwriterTom Stoppard

CinematographerMichael Ballhaus